#MEwx Cool, rainy and humid with Tortilla Chips

Good morning Augusta

The Red Sox beat the N.Y. Yankees last night 6-1. We’re 76 and 65.

A direct, real-time feed from my personal weather station is available for you here.

This morning we have clouds and  Showers. Highs in the lower 60s with North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy this evening, becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds around 10 mph with gusts

up to 20 mph this evening, becoming light and variable.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 52.7°F, the humidity is 97% and the Dew Point is 52.0°F.

The wind direction is Northeast between 4.9 MPH and 7.5 MPH. 

The Relative pressure is 29.68, the Absolute pressure is 29.48 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain.

Visibility is 7.0 Miles / 11.3 Kilometers with Clouds to 1,900 ft / 579 m, mostly cloudy to 3,000 ft / 914 m and overcast to 7,000 ft / 2,133 m.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 6:08 AM Sunset is 7:04 PM, Moonrise is 3:28 PM, moonset is xx:xx PM, and the moon phase is waxing Gibbous.

The RAW METAR reading from Augusta’s airport is:

METAR KAUG 071153Z AUTO 01007KT 7SM -RA FEW019 BKN030 OVC070 12/09 A2978 RMK AO2 RAB30 SLP085 P0001 60001 70001 T01170094 10122 20117 56010

We received 0.04 inches of rain here over the past 24 hours.

Try making your own kind of “chips” to get away from the over-salted and airy brands on the store shelves.

Tortilla Chips

Use Tortilla rounds of your favorite flavor, I use the corn type.

First, take at least two of the tortilla rounds and, using either a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut each one into 8 wedges.

16 wedges will fit just right on a cookie sheet.

Cover the cookie sheet with aluminum foil, the non-stick stuff is the best – and lay the wedges out on it.

IF you want the chips salted, spray them with PAM cooking spray and then salt them.

If you do not want them salted, you needn’t spray them.

Preheat oven to 400ºF. and bake for 10 minutes.

Test to see if they are crisp enough. If not put them back in the oven for an additional 2 minutes.

NOTE: if you are sighted, you will know they are done (crisp enough) by looking at them to see how brown they are.

The cooking spray makes them turn brown.